Troades
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~10,300 words · 49 passages
Cite this work
- APALucius Annaeus Seneca. (n.d.). Troades. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/seneca/troades
- MLALucius Annaeus Seneca. "Troades." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/seneca/troades.
- ChicagoLucius Annaeus Seneca. Troades. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/seneca/troades.
What it is about
The women of Troy after the city's fall, waiting to learn which victor will own them and which of their children will be killed.
Context and history
Seneca's tragedy of the defeated, and the one that leans least on effect: here the horror is not blood but waiting. It shares its matter with Euripides but is not a translation of him.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Talthybius Calchas Senex Helena Nuntius Taciti Astyanax Polyxena Chorus Thebanorum (51) Hecvba. Quicumque regno fidit et magna potens dominatur aula nec leves metuit deos animumque rebus credulum laetis dedit, me videat et' te, Troia: non umquam tulit documenta fors maiora, quam fragili loco starent superbi, columen eversum occidit pollentis Asiae, caelitum egregius labor; ad cuius arma venit et qui frigidum septena Tanain ora pandentem bibit, et quae vagos vicina prospiciens Scythas ripam catervis Ponticam viduis ferit, et qui renatum primus excipiens diem tepidum rubenti Tigrin inmiscet freto, excisa ferro est, Pergamum incubuit sibi. en alta muri decora congesti iacent tectis adustis; regiam flammae ambiunt omnisque late fumat Assaraci domus. non prohibet avidas flamma victoris manus: diripitur ardens Troia, nec caelum patet undante fumo: nube ceu densa obsitus ater favilla squalet Iliaca dies. stat avidus irae victor et lentum Ilium (52) metitur oculis ac decem tandem ferus ignoscit annis; horret afflictam quoque, victamque quamvis videat, haut credit sibi potuisse vinci, spolia populator rapit Dardania; praedam mille non capiunt rates. Testor deorum numen adversum mihi, patriaeque cineres teque rectorem Phrygum quem Troia toto conditum regno tegit, tuosque manes quo stetit stante Ilium, et vos meorum liberam magni greges, umbrae minores: quicquid adversi accidit, quaecumque Phoebas ore lymphato furens← Back to Lucius Annaeus Seneca